DISCALIMER: I don't own CSI Miami and i don't make any money from it.
SUMMARY: The story about Natalia, Nick and and anchor.
The Anchor.
Natalia was looking at a necklace that at the moment where hanging around her neck. Or to be more precise she was at the moment playing with it. It was in shape of an anchor. It was a gift from Nick when they had still been together. And just this necklace was very special to her because of the story behind it.
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It had been early in the relationship and the young couple had decided to rent a sailboat and go on a trip on the great blue for three weeks. They were both good sailors that knew their way around a boat. And they enjoyed each other as well as the life at sea.
It was around the seventh day off the journey and the two of them were ashore shopping for supply.
It was then Natalia happened to look in a window in a jeweler store and saw the anchor, it was probably they most beautiful think she had every seen. It was a silver anchor with a diamond on each end.
"Nat, are you coming," she heard Nick yell in front of her.
"Nick, come and look at this," she yelled back, which made him turn to see what she was looking at.
"Isn't it beautiful?" she asked, looking at him with hopeful eyes.
"It really is, but look at the price tag," he said with a sigh, knowing there was no way he could afford it.
"I know, but I still would like to….have it," she said with a sigh.
"I would love to get it for you darling, but right now I can't," he said.
"Don't worry about it, that we're together means more than every necklace in the world, now come on," she said and dragged him along after he had given her a peck on the cheek.
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That night they lay at dc in the harbor and while Natalia were sleeping after they had made love, Nick was up thinking about the necklace.
You could say a lot of things about Nick, but he really loved his Natalia and he wanted to give her the world. He also wanted to give her that necklace even if would mean they would have to live for a little less for a while.
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It was early the next day and Natalia and Nick was out on open water relaxing, she was swimming and he was watching her. Every moment was perfect just like her.
"You're not coming in Nick?" she asked when she managed to get her head above water.
"Not at the moment, beautiful, I'm perfectly fine jut watching you my darling," he answered as he smiled at her.
"Awwwww, you say the sweetest things, you know Nick, I have been thinking….," she said.
"About?" he asked curiously.
"You know the future and stuff," she said.
"And what exactly have you been thinking?" he asked leaning his head in his hands just watching her.
"That maybe we should start saving for a house when we get back" she answered.
"I agree, I think that would be better than our current living situation," he agreed.
"Mhm, now don't be sucha lazy bone, come swim with me," she said with a giggle.
He just smiled a little before jumping in the water and chased her before dragging her under giggling. When they finally managed to get to the surface Nick pulled her close for a long deep kiss which she let develop in even more kisses caressing him all over as they become one with the water and each other.
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It was that night that Nick gave his Natalia the necklace as a symbol of their hopes and dreams of the future. She of course got overjoyed by this gesture and promised to never take it of her neck again. Afterwards they made love for hours before falling asleep locked up in each others arms very much in love.
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But the hopes and dreams had in the end faded away when Nick showed his true colors and they had ended their path together. Although this had at first made Natalia a bit lost and confused she had after a while ended up finding a new path. A path that in the end had taken her to the people in the Miami Dade Crime lab
And even if it wasn't they family she originally had planned on having, they had become the one she had both wanted and needed.
The brunette got pulled out of her thoughts and back to reality by Ryan saying, "Nat, are you coming or what?
"Huh?" she said looking at him with confused eyes.
"Lunch at Rosie's remember? Calleigh and Delko are already waiting there," he said and smiled at her.
"Oh yeah, I'm coming," she said letting go of the anchor and even if the hopes and dreams she once had was gone, she now saw new and better ones with the people she really loved. The ones that were her true family and would never let her down.
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